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Client organizations are responsible for all commercial software, licensing requirements and maintenancecosts necessary for supporting the ABITS/CMDB solution. Third-party vendor software required for theABITS/CMDB servers are as follows:

The JDBC driver class is contained within the Application installation WAR file.

Note:

ABITS/CMDB 5.x is incompatible with the latest version of Apache Tomcat 5.5.17.

As part of the ABITS/CMDB 5.x installation, Apache Tomcat and Sun Microsystems Java

RuntimeEnvironment are installed and configured. The CMDB system is highly dependent on and only supportedby these 3rd

party software packages.No other vendor servlet server solutions are supported at this time.

Option 2

Vendor

Supported Software

Red

Hat

Fedora 4 Linux

Sun Microsystems

Java J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6 (1.5.0.60)

Apache SoftwareFoundation

Apache Tomcat 5.5.9

Note:Testing of the Linux operating system is pending.

Clients can chose to run the Apache Tomcat server and Java Runtime Environment on any vendor-supported operating system. However, at this time the ABITS/CMDB has only been tested and supportedon Microsoft Windows Server operating systems and therefore may not behave or perform as expected.

ABITS/CMDB 5.x Requirements

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Software Requirements (cont’d)

Database Server

The following software specifications are recommended & supported for installation & operation of theABITS/CMDB Database Server.

Option 1

Vendor

Supported Software

Microsoft Corporation

SQL Server 2000 w/ Service Pack 4

Option 2

Vendor

Supported Software

Oracle Corporation

Oracle RDBMS 10g R2 Enterprise Edition

Note:

It is advised that the required Microsoft & Oracle patches as per Oracle Corporation’srecommendations are also installed.

The Oracle RDBMS can be run onany Oracle-supported operating system, as implemented by the localDBA or defined by organizational IT standards.

Note:Release 5.x is only supported on MS SQL Server. Oracle RDBMS support is in development.

Client Workstation

The following software specifications are recommended & supported for accessing the ABITS/CMDBApplication from a client workstation.

Vendor

Supported Software

Microsoft Corporation

Internet Explorer 5.x or 6.x

Adobe Systems

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or higher

Note:

Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed in order to view ABITS/CMDB reports.

ABITS/CMDB 5.x Requirements

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Hardware Requirements

Client organizations are responsible for all server hardware, online disk & backup storage, and networkinfrastructure (LAN/WAN) components necessary for supporting the ABITS/CMDB solution. Third-partyvendor server and networking hardware required for the ABITS/CMDB servers are as follows:

Application Web Server

The following specifications are recommended for installation & operation of the CMDB Application WebServer.

Recommended Hardware

Pentium 4–

2.8 GHz or higher

2 GB RAM or higher

1 GB Disk Space for ABITS/CMDB Application

SCSI RAID 5 Array (Optional)

2nd

Processor (Optional)

Database Server

The following hardware specifications are recommended for installation and operation of the CMDBDatabase Server.

Recommended Hardware

Pentium 4–

2.8 GHz or higher

2 GB RAM or higher

2 GB Disk Space for CMDB Database

SCSI RAID 5 Array (Optional)

2nd

Processor (Optional)

The Oracle RDBMS can be run on any Oracle-supported hardware platforms, as implemented by ordefined by organizational IT standards.